Since the 1960s, the society has been submerged in a swirl of violence such as the president assassination, the escalating Vietnam War and a flurry of social disorders accompanied by bloody riots. On the other hand, violence-intensive films began to be unleashed after the dismantling of movies’ traditional self-policing apparatus and the introduction of rating…
The Evolution of the Film Industry Through Fifty Years
The use of the audio/visual media of film entertainment has been a huge influence on society since it came to be. People everywhere have been drawn to the glamour of the stories that can be told on the film outlet. The business side of the film industry has proved successful and brought in a tremendous…
Social and Political influences in Major Films
Both Pleasantville released in 1998 and Avatar released in 2009 contain strong social and political messages embedded into their stories. Avatar however was a significantly larger production and exceeded many people’s expectations with its state of the art CGI visuals. Pleasantville while a cheerful comedy does not have the mainstream shock value that kept viewers…
Unconventional Love Stories
For the last two weeks, I have been studying the films Brokeback Mountain and Forrest Gump. The only fitting theme to study between them seemed to be their stories of unconventional love. This is where the two films are so similar. And for no particular reason, I watched Forrest Gump first. The story was wonderful…
Tangerine (2015) VS Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Tangerine Tangerine follows the story of Sin-Dee Rella and Alexandra who are both transgender sex workers. While sitting together Alexandra reveals to Sin-Dee that while she was in jail for 28 days her boyfriend/pimp Chester had been cheating on her. Sin-Dee spends the entire day on a warpath to find out who Chester had been cheating…
Becoming a Person to Believe In
In the films I watched this week, Avatar and Forrest Gump, we are given a look into the life of two men, who against all odds become someone to believe in. While each of them goes about it a bit differently, both Jake Sully and Forrest Gump become some of the most reliable and caring people…
Two Ways that the Digital Revolution Changed the Film Industry
Since the digital revolution busted through the scene in Hollywood, filmmakers were able to throw tons of money into a film and be confident that it would succeed because people are always drawn to the ground-breaking effects and illusions on screen. This digital revolution also made it possible for smaller films to be made more…
Muted Violence Versus Pulped Violence
The film-making came into an area of digital revolution in 90s. The boom of innovative digital technologies on the one hand created more spectacular but also expensive visual effects while on the other hand, triggered the emergence of mobile devices and streaming media providing more opportunities for the audience to watch movies outside the cinema….
I’ll be back vs I’ll be gone
The terminator, a low-budget sci-fi Film produced by Hemdale Film, was released in cinemas in 1984. As an unprecedented landmark science fiction film, the impact is definitely not only a generation. Laments it in the science fiction movie’s unprecedented, regrettably is after has not come, even if is “the matrix” I can only say is…
Tales from the Terminator
Over the last 2 weeks, I have watched The Terminator and Tales from the Crypt, two “horror” genre films that have an asterisk next to them, as they weren’t quite scary. Both films are extremely entertaining, one as an action-packed thriller, filled with a bit of outdated CGI and the other as a set of…
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